Steel is unloaded Monday morning along DeSiard Street in Monroe. The steel will be used in a new project at the Vantage Tower.

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Greg Hilburn
ghilburn@thenewsstar.com

Vantage Health Plan, the top catalyst for downtown Monroe's revival during the past decade, is continuing its makeover of the downtown district.

The company is in the midst of a $1 million renovation of its banquet room in Vantage Tower, the corporate headquarters at 130 DeSiard St., and it plans to spend millions to renovate the State Office Building on St. John Street once it acquires that facility this summer.

City officials closed a section of DeSiard from South Grand to St. John Monday morning and will do so again 9-11 a.m. Wednesday to offload the large steel beams that will support the new ...